Best practice for switching from web to print layout?

[DesignLife]

Hi,

I would like to create a screen presentation in Publisher, which is converted to a print layout (different format!, eg 16:10 vs Din A3) at a later stage. Do you have a recommendation for how to do this most efficiently? I’d like to keep all pictures and simply adjust their size and position where necessary. 
 

by the way, even with linked files published on my mac sometimes eats up disc space like crazy, 50gb for a small project. Is this a bug? Is there a workaround?

 

I've seen that I can switch from pixel to mm and change the layout size, however if initially it was a Web layout, there only seem to be web options (eg screen resolution) and I cannot select DIN A4. Also I'm not sure yet how I can best fit images to the new layout. The scaling option is useless because it takes pictures out of proportion, without scaling I need to adjust every single image?!

 

I'm also confused regarding text frames in a Master frame. Is it possible to define the font,. font size, etc there such that it is always kept for all layout pages using this master frame?

Edited July 10, 2021 by DesignLife

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, DesignLife said:

I'm also confused regarding text frames in a Master frame. Is it possible to define the font,. font size, etc there such that it is always kept for all layout pages using this master frame?

Use Paragraph Styles for this, you can even import them into your new document from an older one you had success with. It may appear that the Text frames are holding onto the defined font size etc it is an illusion.

[DesignLife]

Thanks, that's a great idea!

 

Also how do you make sure the distance between picture frames is the same? Is there a simple way to e.g. snap it to 20mm?

[MikeTO]

On 7/10/2021 at 6:31 AM, DesignLife said:

by the way, even with linked files published on my mac sometimes eats up disc space like crazy, 50gb for a small project. Is this a bug? Is there a workaround?

I doubt that the files are actually linked if you're finding the Publisher file is 50GB. Publisher files with linked images are tiny - my book has hundreds of high res photos and is still under 10MB.